Genres, Movements & Theory

6 terms

Photography that emphasises form, colour, texture and pattern over the identification of its subject.

Photography commissioned to promote a product, service or brand.

Photography made from an elevated platform — aircraft, helicopter, drone or kite — looking down on the subject.

Photography of buildings and structures, concerned with form, space and the accurate rendering of geometry.

Photography of the night sky, from wide-field starscapes to magnified images of deep-sky objects.

Walter Benjamin's term for the unique presence of an original artwork, which he argued mechanical reproduction dissolves.